The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-10

or Introduction OF all liquors Is positively
prohibited. IL is iruc some little Is occas-
ionally Struggled In by lawless persons on
the border but the moral sentiment OF the
against II and such thing as public drink
Ing saloons Is unknown
Again. Governor Larabee of Iowa certi-
fles TO the general enforcement and success
of the law In that State and we learn that Ia
the LIST Congressional District, con-
tanning the CT les OF Burlington, Fort Madi-
son, Keokuk, &C., IN which the violations
had been most dafant, an Alliance had been
formed raised $1,000 to prosecute rum-sel-
ers, and commenced by warning tender
footed mayors that uni ,ss they executed the
law war woul | be made upon them; in Au-
dubon a saloon keeper was fined $500 and
costs, and ordered TO JAIL TILL 1T SHOULD
he PAID; druggist was found guilty,
fined $500, temporarily cnjoined and indict-
ed on another charge; while In the
same city one Moenk, saloon-keeper,
pleaded guilty, was fined $3.50, costs, attor-
neys' fees. ETC., and perpetually enJoined
And yet rumsellers and their defenders In
Texas say prohibition don't prohibit. We
suppose they mean that 1t don't prohibit
where sellers can defeat II by such VIOLA
tons OF law us criminals commit in all
lands. The governor wrote TO the Texas
Central Prohibition Committee that the
law is u success in 50 counties, partial
success IN 10, that no property has depre-
ciated, that departed saloons make room
Tor better business, remove from the State
incurable dispensers and consumers, I'M
prove the habits and welfare OF the people
Increase the prohibition sentiment and es-
tablish it rs power in Iowa. ASSOCIATED
Press Dispatch, Des Moines, April 2l.)
But perhaps the most unsatisfactory evil
dence comes from Governor B0dwell, oil
Maine. to the prohibition club Of Fort
Worth. 1t is sworn TO and authenticated,
with the seals of Il justice and the secretary
of State, dated Augusta, Me-, May 10, 1881,
declares every brewery and distillery in
the State closed, that in more than half the
towns and cities the traffic is
entirely suppressed; that where con.
tinued It is only few secret groggeiles,
that by the latest statistics only $50 persons
took out United States retail liquor licences
including all druggists, that from 1860 to
1880 taxable values rose from SlG2,0)0,0O0 to
$23j, 0JJ,000 while the population increased
only $4,000 and this increase in taxable
value did not include savings bank deposits
which amounted to S3I 100000 or an aver
aye of S5S to every man, woman and child
in the State That Maine has only one con-
Wet to $500 of her population while in the
Union ut large there are from three to four
Times that number and that after more than
twenty-five years trial The State voted Il
constitutional amendment in 1881 forever
prohibiting the traffic.
Talmage, whose sermons are read by, per-
haps, more people than those of any other
man, said on April lst that he saw not one
intoxicated man IN Iowa or Kansas. that no
liquor is sold there, that the rum shops are
ali closed, that before n man can get drink
of liquor there he must go to drugstore
and make solemn oath before God and
man that he is lick aud needs it u medi-
cine, and that few men will do this falsely.
And truly we may add that any tlaflic or
habit which wou d educate men TO thus
swear falsely NEEDS to be abolished. and
none put saloon graduates ever get SUCH
education.
To the same effect goes the testimony of
Major w. Il. Penn, of Texas, who spent
live months in Kansas in his work rs an
evangelist. lie declared to reporter OF
the Galveston News that he saw only TWO
drunken men during the hve months until
he reached Leavenworth, where he found
about 200 saloons in full blast, in defiance
of law. These were mostly owned and run
by foreigners. There he saw bloody faces
and other signs of fighting, and heard oaths
that reminded him of Texas. While there
the State encouragement came, called the
people together, declared the saloons must
be closed, and closed them. After three
weeks absence, Penn again visited Leav-
enworth, saw no signs of drinking, and
found real estate on perfect boom. Lots
and lands were selling for twice and thrice
the value of a month before. Millions OF
dollars were pouring into Kansas IN the
hands OF prohibitlonists, but not one Wills
Ky dealer nor gambler, while lots and lands
In Kansas, no better than those in Texas,
are selling for from five to ten times rs
much. This noted Texan closed by declar-
ing himself one OF the strongest prohibit
tiJnists in Texas or out OF it, although be-
fore his visit to Kansas he had been opposed
to prohibition. on the grounds that it
would not prohibit. Bishop Bowman, OF
the Methodist, gives equally clear tes,imo-
ny AS TO Maine and Kansas. But why con-
tinue! We have evidences piled up as high
as polion upon Ossa, from governors,
Judges. bishops, ministers. editors, travel
ers teachers, men of all classes, and attest
ed in all ways.
Third.-The persistelcy of the prohibit.
tion states nroves n. Returns Of elections
show year by year increased majorlties for
prohibition. Legislation grows more I'M
compromising In its hostility TO the evil.
This Is seen in Maine, in Kansas, in Iowa,
in Geo gia. Tennessee and Mississippi, in
Arkansas and Texas, in short, throughout
the union.
Fourlh.-It must be true, since statistics
from states. cities and counties from both
hemispheres, show freedom from crime,
from poor-houses, from policemen, and
even from death itself. rs results of prohibit
tion. In Maine, in lss2, the revenue TO the
Uuited States from the traffic was four cents
and three mills per capita of her popula-
ton. while in the union nj large il was
Sill. tSee American Encyclopedia Annu-
al. 1889. p. $685. In Liverpool Il large area,
containing $4,000 souls, has prohibition and
a death rate of ten TO twelve per thousand
annually, while IN the remaining parts OF
the city the death rate is - to the thousand.
lam. Cy. An, p. G69.) That prohibition is
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